Bracket-holder for flower-vases.



' s. D. R. BRAUN. BRACKET HOLDER FOR FLOWER VASES.

FILED APR. 27, 1912.

Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

COLUMBIA PMNOGRAPH CO;,WLSHIKGTON, ALC- SIDNEY n. n. BBAUN, or cnIcAeo,ILLINOIS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY D. R. BRAUN,

- a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin Bracket-Holders for Flower-Vases, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invent-ion relates to improvements in bracket holders for flower'vases in which the stem of the holder is tapering or con1.-'

cal, and the entire weight of which has herei tofore been suspended in acollar embracing the body in turn supported by" a bracket arm fastenedto a fixedsupport in an automobile, the wall'of a room, etc.

In the prior structure above referred to, the vase is not onlyfrequently broken by reason of its wedging too tightly'in the sus-'"pending ring fromthe jars of the vehicle, and the vase-is notinfrequently jolted entirely out of the holder from the vehicle strikingabrupt bumps in the road over which it is traveling, and thereby notonly spillingthe water inthe flower holder but breaking the vase,because it is generally made of glass or other brittle material, andwhich in many instances are very expensive.

The object of this invention is not only to relievelthe body. of thevase from breaking contact with a collar necessarily surrounding it, butto secure thevase against any possible longitudinal movement thereinorlongitudinal detachment'therefrom.

A further object of thls invention is abracket holder for a flower vaseadaptedto rigidly hold the vase against accidental de tachment, thecollar embracing the body which is adjustable to variations in the stembetween the differing vases, which bracket is moreover, so constructedthat the vase may be quickly and conveniently removed therefrom forcleansingpurposes, or for renewal when unavoidably broken.

With these ends in view, my invention finds embodiment incertainfeatures of how elty in the construction, combination and arrangement ofparts by-which the said objects and certain other objects arehereinafter attained, all as fully described with reference to theaccompanying drawing, and more particularly pointed out'in the claims. p

In said drawing: Figure lfillustrates in side elevation, a vase.supporting bracket with a flower vase therein inits operativeSpecificationof Letters Patent,

striking the collar a sharp blow a BRACKET-HOLDER roe crowns-vases.

Patented Sept. 39, 1913.

Application filed April 27, 1912. Serial No. 693,711.

- position. Fig. 2 isa detail section showing the. adjustable connectingrod between the wall bracket and the ring supporting the stem end. ofthe vase, and Fig. 3 is a detail longitudinal section of the lower endof the vase, its supporting rod and ring support, and the nut forclamping the end of the vase to the ring.

Similar characters of reference indicate the same parts in the severalfigures of the drawing. i V i a The bracket plate 4 is provided withcountersunk screw holes '5 for the reception of screws, for securingitin its operative position in an automobile or to the wall or windowframe of a room, from'which plate projects an arm or post 6 on the outerend of which is formed or'brazed thereto as may be, a ring or collar 7tapered to conform to the conical stem 8 of a flower holder 9,preferably and usually of glass, thecollar being provided with (see Fig.2) a lining 10 of felt or other suitable yielding material cushioningthe stem of the holder against tending to fracture or break the holder.

Theprojecting arm -6 of the bracket is provided with a screw-threadedsocket 11 for the reception of a rod 12 terminating at its lower end ina lateral projectingring 13 forming the basesupport of a socket piece 14receiving and preferably cemented to the bottom end 15 of the stem ofthe holder, from which socket piece projects a screw 16 which may beformed with or brazed tothe is adjustable in the arm, and to which endthe screw-threaded socket is made of such a length as to provide for a.considerable range of adjusting the base ring with reference to thebottom end of the flower holder. This adjustment of the base ring is notonly desirable but necessary to guard against the cracking and breakingof the stem of the flower holder against the ring 7 when for from thevase is unavoidably subject to sudden jolts from such a vehicle, in thatit provides for suspending and supporting the enexample inuse inanautomobile and wherer tire weight of the vase from the bracket arm 6and a fit of sufiicient looseness between the collar and the stem of thevase toprevent the latter from any possibility of becoming so tight inthe collar as to fracture the vase,

and this notwithstanding variations that may be in the diameters ofbases ofthe same size or trade number, and in which such variationsfrequently occur. In other words by having the rod 12 adjustably held inthe bracket arm 6 provision is made by which the distance between thecollar and the base ring maybe so increased or diminished that V l thebase ring may support the entire weight of the vase and prevent "itsstem from clampmg in the collar or having an ob ect1onable lateralmovement therein when otherwise the collar would suspend the end of thevase V stem above the base ring and thereby defeat a 2,0

the essential object of my invention the essential feature of which isto have the lower endof the vase resting upon, and its entireweightsupported from'a base and whereby the vase may --be prevented frombeing broken by a force wed'ging it in a collar,

which owing to the fragile character of the vase must necessarllyencircle the'stem of the vase at a point between the ends of its stem.

In; assen1blii1g the bracket, the rod 12 is turned up or down as maybein'the arm 6 such adistance that when the stem of the vase is insertedthrough the collar? it will be'somewhat' loose thereinwhen the endofthe'socket piece 14L rests upon the ring with "the screw '16 projectingthrough the latter and thereupon th'e'nut 17 is adjusted on the .screwuntil the end of the vase is held and locked tight upon the ring.

By my invention the straln or lateral strlklng force of a vase stemagainst the collar 7 and th'ejolting of the vase out of the collarisentirely prevented, theentire weight of the vase supported fro-mite endand locked against accidental detachment from its base by means ofaconstruction "which enables the vase to be bodily removed for cleansingpurposes and afterward re-in- 'serted to its operative position andlocked quickly in place against accidental detachment by very simple-andefiective means. 7

While I have shown and described my in- 1 vention for sustaining vaseshaving tapering icoples otjthis patent may be obtained for scribed.

or cone-like stems their f length against lateralstrainsotherwisetending totheir breakage and supporting their'ventireweight from the end thereof, it should be ob- I served that my inventionis also well'adapt5 ed for vases and other receptaclesthe stems of whichare of other forms, as for example with parallel sideseither square orround in p cross-section.

Having described myinventioinwhat I claim and desire to secure by"Letters Patentis:

1. A bracket for flower holder vases comprising in combinationaprojected bracket arm, a collarrigid with and projecting from the end ofsaid arm for surrounding a vase stem, a base support for'the end ofthevase adjustably secured to V and suspending; d1 rectly from said arm,substantially. as de- 1 QIA bracket for flower holder. vasescomprisingin combination a bracket'arm,-a vase retalnlng collar pro1ect1ng fromsaid arm,

a support' for thebaseof the vase, means suspending the. said base fromthe bracket arm, an end socket for a vase and means'pro j ecting fromthe socket whereby the socket stantially as described. 7

v A bracket'for flower prising in combination'a bracket arm, a vase stemretaining collar projecting: from said arm, a ring below. said. bracketarm, means whereby said ringiszadjustedtwith referholder vases com-'is-tightened against the base support,sub: r

ence to the collar,'and means for looking a vase to'said'collar, theiendof which vase is seated thereon, substantially as described."

' t. A bracket for flower holder .vases'com prising in combinatlo-n abracket arm, a cole 'lar secured tol'and'a rod ad ustable in said arm, abase ringon' the lower-end of said arm, a socket piece receiving the adacent end' of saidbase, and means for tightening j said socket pieceagainst the basering, substantially'asdescribed. 1

- In' witness whereof, I have hereunto set Washingtoml). G, v v V VSIDNEYD; it Barium fir five cents each, byaddressing theCommissioner nfilatejntss

